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If passed, it would increase the amount of money departments can spend without commission approval.

As members finalize new rules in unincorporated areas, Hamilton County commissioners have again extended an ongoing pause on new short-term vacation rental permits — this time through April 20.

Hamilton County Commission Chairman Chip Baker was on to something earlier this month when he suggested the commission needed a more deliberative process for awarding funds to nonprofit organizations, and that became clear with the discussion at Wednesday's commission meeting on funds proposed for the nonprofit Lighthouse Collective.

Hamilton County commissioners will decide next week whether to provide an additional $100,000 in federal pandemic relief money for a youth mentorship program called the Lighthouse Collective, which would be the second of three yearly installments totaling $300,000.

Arguing that it could set a poor precedent, Hamilton County commissioners narrowly denied a request by residents of a Montlake subdivision to accept Terrace Falls Drive as a county road, with an official stating that the roadway doesn't meet existing county standards.